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Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.
Opinion

Editorial: Cupcakes, and mac and cheese

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s announcement machine seems to be at full speed recently — as of Monday there had been 21 so far this year. Several have been for projects where government support is entirely appropriate — research into pulses, soybeans, sustainable beef production and others. On the other hand it should be noted that
grain being loaded onto a cargo ship
Cereals, News

Sask. Wheat says wide basis costing wheat growers billions

Economist Richard Gray says elevator prices are down even though f.o.b. Vancouver prices have remained steady to higher since

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The Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (SWDC) says export wheat prices are similar to or higher than last October, but farmers are receiving about $20 per tonne less. “Rail transportation and handling capacity have not improved and this is being reflected in even lower returns for producers and a lower share of export values as the
Canada - U.S. border crossing
Cereals, Crops

Everything you ever wanted to know about shipping grain to the U.S.

Online publication includes info on weight restrictions, phytosanitary certificates and more

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Canadian and American grain companies have a new resource to assist them when buying or transhipping grain to or through each other’s countries. The goal is to expedite grain trading between the two nations and beyond following the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk. “We’ve seen all sorts of border challenges in other
Root cyst nematode infection on soybeans
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybeans — it might be OK to go easy on the inoculant

MPGA tests also show little or no benefit in using fungicides

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Plant your soybeans on wheat or corn stubble and aim for 140,000 to 150,000 plants per acre. Those were two of the recommendations from research results delivered by Manitoba Pulse Growers production specialist Kristen Podolsky to a meeting of the Brokenhead River Agricultural Conference here last week. Podolsky also said you might not need to
a man holding wheat in his hand
Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: Will Wheat Commission’s PDQ project have any teeth?

Also, A job for the senators: Answering the unanswered questions of UPOV '91

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If you didn’t read Phil Franz-Warkentin’s article on calculating basis on page 11 last week and don’t still have a copy, you can find it by going to our website and searching for “muddied.” That word appropriately describes the voodoo combination of futures and exchange rates that Prairie grain companies use to calculate their published
Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: The (not so) great farm smackdown

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If you’ve ever watched “smackdown” wrestling on television, you have to admit it’s entertaining, in a perverse sort of way, watching those muscle-bound burly sorts strutting around pounding their chests like apes and shouting insults. Even when they are throwing punches or tossing each other out of the ring, it’s pretty obvious that it’s all
Crops, Markets

Argentina to restrict wheat export permits if low prices paid

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Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Wheat exporters who buy the grain from Argentina’s farmers will not be issued permits if they pay the growers significantly less than the international price for the crop, the government said Friday. The announcement, by Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, followed complaints by local producers that government restrictions on wheat exports
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

Wheat basis muddied in Western Canada

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CNS Canada — The difference between futures markets and cash markets for any exchange-traded commodities can usually be brought into focus by the basis — that is, except in Prairie wheat, where that focus has now gone fuzzy. Typically, a wide or narrow basis provides some indication of how representative the futures market is of
Wheat yield to decline as temperatures increase
Cereals, Opinion

Wheat yield to decline as temperatures increase

International group combines models to increase accuracy of prediction

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For every degree celsius that the temperature increases, the world stands to lose six per cent of its wheat crop, according to a new global study led by a University of Florida scientist. That’s one-fourth of the annual global wheat trade, which reached 147 million tonnes in 2013. Senthold Asseng, a UF professor of agricultural
Gerry Ritz, Canada's agriculture minister
Crops, News

Commercial feed mills to be covered by CGC security

When governing the grain commission Gerry Ritz says ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’

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If Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz gets his way, farmers who sell to feed mills will be protected under the proposed Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) producer payment security program. “My direction to them (CGC) is find a way to incorporate feed mills,” Ritz said in an interview Jan. 9. “The direction is, yes, they will be

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